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BULLETIN OF THE • MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY HARVARD COLLEGE, VOL IN CAMBRIDGE XL CAMBRIDGE, MASS., 1883-1885 U S A Qt \A\\ University Press : John Wilson and Son, Cambridge 613327 •+ ss CONTENTS Page — Keports on the Results of Dredging by the United States Coast Survey Steamer " Blake." XXI Report on the Anthozoa and on some Additional Species dredged by the " Blake " in 1878-79, and by the U S By A E Vekrill Fish Commission Steamer " Fish Hawk" in 1880-82 No 1 (8 Plates.) — Reports on the Results of Dredging in the United States Coast Survey Steamer " Blake." XXII A Chapter in the History of the Gulf No By Alexakdek Agassiz Stream No — Exploration 73 Fauna of the Surface of the Gulf Stream, under the By Alexander Agassiz By J Walter Fewkes Auspices of the United States Coast Survey On a few Medusae from the Bermudas IV 79 (1 folding Plate.) — Report on the Results of Dredging by the United States Coast Survey Steamer " Blake." XXIII Report on the Isopoda By Oscar No Harger No on the Results of Dredging by the United States Coast Survey Steamer Cephalopods No G No 91 (4 Plates.) — Reports " Blake." By XXV Supplementary Report on the "Blake" A E Verrill (.3 105 Plates.) — Descriptions of Two Species of Octopus, from California.^ Plates.) — Reports on the Results of Dredging by the United States Coast Sur(3 vey Steamer "Blake." XX.VI Verzeicliniss der von den United States Coast Survey Steamers " Hassler " and "Blake," von 1867 zu 1879, gesammelten Myzostomiden Von Dr L v Graff No — A Supplement to the Fifth Volume By W G Binney 135 (4 Plates.) — Studies from the Newport Marine Zoological Laboratory the Development of certain No 10 — Bibhograpliy to Worm No 11 By J Larvae accompany graphs, compiled by A Agassiz, lephs 125 of the Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States and adjacent Territories No 117 By J W Fewkes XIII On (8 Plates.) W from Embryological MonoFaxon, and E L Mark." III Aca- W Fewkes — Studies 209 from the Newport Marine Laboratory velopment of Agalma By 167 " Selections J W Fewkes (4 Plates ) XV On the De 239-276 \trtl\^ No, — Reports on the Results of Dredging, under the Supervision Alexander Agassiz, on the East Coast of the United States, during the Summer of 1880, &?/ the U S Coast Survey Steamer "Blake," Commander J E Bartlett, U S N., Commandiug of (Published by permission of Caelile P Patterson and J E Hilgakd, Superintendents of the U S Coast and Geodetic Survey.) XXI Report on the Anthozoa, and on some additional Species dredged hy the '^ Blake'^ in 1877-1879, Hawk" ''Fish and hy in l'880-82 By the U S Fish Commission Steamer A E Verrill In order to make the following report more complete, Authozoa dredged by the U S all the species of Fish Commission, during the past three Stream Slope, off the southern coast Chesapeake Bay, have been combined with those seasons, in deep water along the Gulf of New England and off dredged by the Blake along the whole to George's Bank A coast, from off South Carolina large proportion of the species were dredged both by the Blake and by the Fish Hawk, but the collections made by the latter are much the largest, and contain a number of species not taken by the Blake Other species, poorly represented in the collections of the Blake, were secured in large numbers, and of various ages, by the Fish Hawk Moreover, the dredgings by the Fish Hawk having been made under the immediate supervision of the author, they have afforded him opportunities to study and make descriptions of the species from living specimens ]\Iost many of of the drawings of the Actini- made by Mr J H Emerton from living specimens obHawk, and kept alive in our aquaria For the use of those drawings, on this occasion, we are indebted to the kindness of ans were also tained by the Fish Professor S A F Baird, U S Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries few deep-water species, that have been obtained only by the Glou- cester fishermen on the deep fishing grounds off Nova Scotia and Newthem presented to the U S Fish Commission, have been introduced, to make the list more complete From these foundland, and by also VOL XI — NO 1 BULLETIN OF THE sources nearly all North America, in the species known to inhabit the Atlantic coast of The " Challenger " deep water, have been derived took a few additional species, mostly in The present distance from the coast all still deeper waters, at a greater report includes, therefore, nearly the Anthozoa hitherto discovered in depths between 100 and 1,200 fathoms, along the Gulf Stream Slope, off the coast extending from South A few Carolina to Cape Cod Primnoa cies, like well-known, more northern, deep-water spe- reseda and Paragorgia arhorea, not yet from the fishing banks, off Nova known except Scotia and northward, have been omitted, together with other northern forms that inhabit the shallower New waters of Among England, but extend downward beyond 100 fathoms these are Cerianthus horealis V., Urticina crassicornis, Metridium dianihus {marginatum), Bolocera multicornis, Cornulariella modesta, ic As the on all writer is about to print* a more detailed and illustrated report the Anthozoa of New England and the British Provinces, not thought desirable to include such species, collcctious West Indian Several collections of 1877-79, species, when not it was Blake mostly new, from the Blake have been included in this report and more of comparison with the northern forms, in the for the purpose fully to illustrate the characters of the two families, Ceratoisidce and Dasi/gorgidce, nov., to West Indian which most of the southern species referred to belong species, belonging to for Paramiwicea and Acanthogorgia, also described ai'e comparison with the related species from our coast ALCYONARIA PENNATULACEA Pennatula aculeata Danielssen & Koken Pennatula aculeata Danielssen, Forhandl Vidensk.-Selsk., Christiania, 1858, p 25 Fauna Littoralis Norvegife, IIL, 1877, p Verrill, Amer Jour Sci., V., 1873, pp Smith & Harger, Trans Conn Acad., Pennatula /ihosjihoren, \nr aculeata 1870, p 134, pi Pennatula Canadensis 8(3, pi 5, 11, figs 8, 100; XXIII., 1882, pp 310, 315 III., 187G, p 54 Sars; Kulliker, Alcyonarien, I., Pcnnatulidun, 9, fig 73 Whiteaves, Ann & Plate ^lag Xat I Figrs 3, Ilist., X., 1872, p 346 2& This species varies considerably in form, according to the state of expansion is somewhat larger and bulbous at the end, and sometimes the swell- The stem * In the Reports of the U S Fish Commission MTJSEUM OF COMPAEATIVE ZOOLOGY ing occurs at upper its The body part or middle part of the racliis some- is times considerably swollen, though in alcoholic specimens it is contracted and thin There are a large number of small zooids, with many more or less large, and spiculose processes among them; these are often long and They are usually long and alae are also variable in form narrow, with a single row of spinose calicles along the edge the edge is sometimes deeply divided between the calicles, or even lacerate The polyps (Fig a), in life, when fully expanded, have long, slender, acute, spuiiform, The conspicuous ; numerous slender tapering, acute tentacles, with pinnae, the distal ones grad- stem of tentacles dark red, pinnie pale rose or The tentacles come out in the interval between the gToups of spines whitish on the edge of the calicles When not fully extended the tips and pinnae are ually becoming very short ; incurved, and therefore appear obtuse (Figs Oflf a, b) dredged, on the Fish we Martha's Vineyard, Hawk, a rose-colored In one instance variety (var rosea Dan.) at several localities we also took a pure white specimen (var alba V.), at Station 1025, in 216 fathoms This The color is usually deep red, with the stalk is doubtless only an albino becoming yellowish white at the base Specimens dredged by the Blake in 1880 rosy, : — Specimens Long station Fathoms N Lat 305 810 41° 33' 15" 65° 51' 25" 306 524 260 41° 32' 50" 65° 55' 310 39° 59' 16" 70° 18' 30" 326 464 33° 42' 15" 76° 336 197 38° 21' 50" 73° 32' This species 0' 32 large and small small Many bO" soft muddy bottoms Gulf of — Whiteaves, young young small very abundant and widely distributed on our is 487 fathoms, on TV St La^\Tence, coasts, in 100 to 160-200 fathoms, — 1871-73; Gulf of Maine, U S Fish Commission, on the " Bache," 1872-73; Grand Bank, St Peter's Bank, Banquereau, Western Bank, and other banks men off (in 29 lots, Nova Scotia, in 60 to — Gloucester 300 fathoms, fisher- Cape Sable, X S., 88 Martha's Vineyard and Block Island, including about 90 specimens); — off U S Fish Commission; off and off Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, 1880, 1881, 1882, in 100-487 fathoms, U S Fish Commission Several hundreds of specimens were taken at each fathoms, — of the Stations 943, 945, 1025 — Sars — Carpenter and Thomson Christiansund, 30-100 fathoms, 300 fathoms, Pennatula Pennatula grandis Ehrenberg, (Ptilella) borealis Saks, borealis, Sars, Fauna Kt")LLiKER, Pennatuliden, Vekrill, Amer Jour I., Pt IT., 1881, p Lit Norvegia;, I., p Sci., sp Corall rothen Meeres, 1832, p 66 (non Pallas) KuLLiKER, Zool Voy Challenger, Pennatula and Danielssen; Eastern Atlantic, I., 18j6, p 17, pi 2, figs 1^ 136 XVI., 1878, p 375; XXIV., Nov 1882, p 364 BULLETIN OF THE Guat, Catalogue of Sea Pens, p 21, Verrill, Amer Jour Sci., XVII., 1879, p 241 Ptilella grandis Koukn & Uanielssen, Fauna Lit Norvegiae, 1877, Ptilella horealis 1-7 (non Pallas, figs Pennatula (Ptilella) borealis Verrill, Amer Jour This very large and handsome species grounds off Nova p 82, pi 11, sp.) is Sci., XXIII., 1882, p 310 common on the deep-water fi.shing From the Glouce.'ster fishermen Scotia and Newfoundland over 120 specimens, mostly of large size, have been received by the U S Fish which have been examined by me These were received in 83 lots, from 1878 to 1881 They were taken in 120 to 350 fathoms, on the outer slopes of the Grand Bank, St Peter's Bank, Western Bank, Banquereau, Sable Island Bank, Le Have Bank, and George's Bank Previously, it was known from only a few Norwegian specimens, from Christiansund, Bergens- Commission, all of fjord, Lofoten, Banenfjord, etc., in 150 to 200 fathoms A young specimen was dredged by the U S Fish Commission, tucket and Martha's Vineyard, in 224 fathoms, in 1881; also three perfect specimens, in 317 oms, in 1882 One Nanand off large and 640 fathoms, and a very young one, in 192 fathwas 530 mm (about 20.5 inches) of the largest of these and 146 mm broad; length of the largest wings, 64 mm.; their breadth, 38 mm.; diameter of bulb, 38 mm.; length of stem, below the bulb, 112 mm Color of the wings and rachis, in life, deep orange; upper surface of bulb, high, orange-red Among our specimens there is considerable variation in the relative size of the wings and in their form; in some cases they are long and acute-triangular; ill others, they are much broader and not acute The color varies from dull orange-yellow to deep orange-red Balticina Finmarchica (Sars) Gray M Sars, Fauna Gray, Catalogue Virgularia Finmarchica Lit Norvegia;, II., p 68, pi 11 Balticina Finmarchica of Sea Pens, p lo XVI., 1878, p 375; XXIIL, 1882, pp 311, 315 Stylatula Finmarchica Kiciiiardi, Monografia della Fam Pennatularii, 1800, p 69 Pavonaria Finmarchica Kulliker, I'ennatuliden, 1871, p 2io (non Paronaria Verrill, Amer Jour Sci., Cuvier) Plate A young specimen I Figs 3, a of this species, in the collection, broad, acro.ss the polyjjiferous part; the barren peduncle in diameter Where most is is 70 33 mm long mm long ; ; mm mm developed, there are two polyps in each oblique row, supported by two-lobed spiculose calicles; between the wings there are four to six scattered zooids Toward the upper part of the peduncle there is but one well-developed polyp, with or without an additional young bud, in the and here the calicles have the apex bilobi'd only sli^lilly, or not and terminating in a smgle pointed group of spicula This part agrees oblifiue rows; at all MUSEUM OF COMPAKATIYE ZOOLOGY essentially in structure with the genus Microptilum Kolliker (Challenger Voy- age, Pennatulida, p 26) Another specimen is abnormal; it is 71 mm long, the peduncle occupying 40 mm There are about fifteen transverse rows of polyps on each side, but the uppermost ones are small, imperfectly developed, and pale, as if in process of restoration after they had been injured or destroyed The middle rows have about five well-developed polyps, resembling those on much larger specimens In life the color of the polyps is dark purplish brown; stem and rachis, pale salmon; base of stem, orange This species often has the upper part of the axis, for a greater or less extent, denuded, and occupied by one or more specimens of an actinian (Adinauge Sometimes the denuded place thus occupied nexilis, Plate VI figs 4, 5) I have seen specimens is not terminal, but along some part of the rachis with an actinian only or on the sinuated itself the Balticina mm in diameter attached to a smaU bare spot broadly expanded base had already mbeneath the ccenenchyma, and completely clasped the axis of This actinian has, in a remarkable degree, the habit of thus side of the rachis, but its clasping the axis of this polyp, and other similar objects, by its base, and the meet, unite together in a suture When two or more are attached near together, their margins unite where they come edges of the basal disk, when they in contact Specimens dredged by the Blake in 1880 Station : — ' BULLETIN OF THE List of specimens dredged Station Fathonu) 173 734 325 647 329 603 by the Blake in 1878-80 : — Locality OflF N Lat 33° 35' 20", W Long 34° 39' 40", " Specimens medium 76° good size 75° 14' 40" " " Guadeloupe " size Taken also by the U S Fish Commission, off Martha's Vineyard, in 302 310 fathoms Its color, in life, is usually deep salmon-brown, but varies to pale salmon, and even to yellowish white to The Gloucester fishermen have presented about forty specimens, in twenty St Peter's lots to the U S Fish Commission These are from near the Grand Bank, Bank, Western Bank, Banquereau, Sable Island Baidi, and Le Have Bank, in 85 to 300 fathoms In the Zoology of the Challenger,* Dr Kolliker described A Tlwmsoni, from off Buenos Ayres, in 600 fathoms It is a large species, apparently identical in all respects with my species, from off Nova Scotia and New England Fxiniculina armata Verrill Funtculina armata Vereill, Amer Jour Sci., XVII., 1879, p 240; XXIII., 1882, pp 312, 315 Plate I Figs 4, a, b Rachis long, slender, with large, urcolate, rigid, spiculose polyp-calicles, armed at the aperture with eight sharp, divergent, spicidose points rachis quadrangular, the sides of the axis concave The Axis and polyp-calicles are and arranged in numerous irregular, transvei-se clusters, of two and larger ones intermingled; they are so stiffened by spicula as to be scarcely flexible, and retain well their form; they are elongated, swelling out gradually from near the base, and tapering again above the middle, to near the summit, which suddenly expands to the edge, from which eight acute, entirely separate to four smaller rigid, white points diverge within the calicles cles, ; The tentacles are spiculose, but wholly retractile they are situated between the divergent points of the cali- in expansion The zodids are scattered along the middle of the polypiferous side of the and also between the rows of polj^ps they are prominent and rather large, though much smaller than the polyps, contracted at the base and enlarged at the end, with eight rudimentary tentacles Stem light brownish yellow or buff at base, becoming orange-brown or dark purplish above; calicles dark reddish brown or deep purple, the whitish spicula visible in eight chevron lines zooids pale yellow or light salmon rachis, ; ; with purplish stripes ; tentacles dark brownish red * The Zor.logy of the Voyage of 11 :\r S Cballentror, Vol on the PenuatuUda, by Professor Albert V Kolliker, 1880 I Part 11., Report 20 were designed to afford a training such as is given in the German Universities During the summer of 1884 eight students who Gym- nasia of the l)ad pursued courses in the laborator}'' were guided in the prosecution of field-work in geology and palteontology In the spare time of the instruction period, and during the vacations, the following work has been done additional By N S Shaler, the publication of a " First Book in Geol- The completion ogy," with instruction for teachers, 325 pages of certain work The vey in connection with the Kentucky Geological Sur- prosecution of a geological study of the Narragansett Coal-field, including the supervision of a systematic exploration of portions of this field by means diamond of the drill; and, during the summer months, a study of the coast line of Passamaquoddy Bay In the last-named work, over one hundred miles of shore line were carefully examined, with interesting results ; a report of this work will appear in the publications of the United States Geological Survey The papers published by Mr W M Davis during year are : — Becraft's Mountain and the Nonconformity Sci., printed from Science, Vols at Rondout, N Y XXVI., 1883, pp 381-395 Whirlwinds, Cyclones, and Tornadoes, Araer Journ the past II and Boston, 1884 Re- III Meteorological Cliarts of the North Atlantic Science, III., 1884, pp 593-597, 654-657 The Winds and Currents of the Equatorial Atlantic Amer Meteorol Journal, June, 1884 The Relation of Tornadoes to Cyclones Anicr Meteor Journal, August, 1884 Gorges and Waterfalls pp 123-132 Amer Journ Sci., XXVIII., 1884, 21 REPORT ON MAMMALS AND BIRDS By J A Allen These departments remain nearly as indicated in the last Report, there having been comparatively few additions or other changes during the last year Mammals have been added nineteen mounted specimens, three skins, and one mounted and eight unmounted skeletons Of noteworthy pieces are a female gorilla and a black-tailed deer (^Cariacus columhianus)^ the latter contributed by Professor Baird also, a skeleton of a whale The collection of Birds has been increased by the addition of sixty-eight mounted specimens (fifty-eight species) and one hundred and seven skins (sixty-one species) the latter mainly There to fill deficiencies in the North American collection have also been added three mounted and three unmounted skeletons The Birds in the Systematic, South American, and Australian Rooms have been labelled, and considerable progress has been made in the preparation of the systematic or index To the collection of ; ; catalogue of the skins 22 REPORT ON THE REPTILES AND FISHES By Samuel Garman number of specimens on exhibition has been considerably increased The exhibit for the EuropeoIn these departments the Siberian room has been selected, mounted, and put in position, and many additional specimens have been placed in the other rooms The by evaporation from the loss has been small A gratifying reduction jars on the shelves of the bulk of the col- lections in the storage-rooms has been rendered possible number of identifications by the Quantities of duplicates and badly preserved specimens have been thrown away Convenience in handling and in storing the reserves has been greatly enhanced by the space formerly occupied by the thousands Since the thorough renovation of a couple that have gone out of years ago, comparatively little change contents of the storage-tanks, cans, and Receipts — The fishes of the first returned by Dr Steindachner purchase from Prof Ward batrachians, and reptiles sea snakes, of specimens A is to be noticed in the jars Blake Expeditions have been desirable lot was secured by It included fishes, Among them was and the strange shark, CJdamycloselachus the type of a new order selachians, a fine series of anguitieus, This selachian derives an especial importance from the fact that it is the only known living representative of the Cladodonts, so numerous in the Middle Devonian and the Subcarboniferous It possesses the distinc- tion at present of being " the oldest living type of Vertebrate." A careful study of this species has been made, and is now being an extensive series of drawings by the Museum From S H Sommers, Esq., has been artist, Mr Roetter of fossil fishes from the Twin Creek shales received a collection We are indebted to the Fish Commissioners of of Wyoming illustrated in Massachusetts and New Hampshire for a large series of young 23 and salmon, showing their monstrosities Mr Luther Hays have interested themselves in our in some of the largest and finest during the season Mr George R trout various malformations and and Colonel E B Hodge much as to send specimens of trout taken behalf so Some collection of living reptiles Allaman contributes a fine rare fishes, Chologaster and batrachians were received in exchange from H Garman, Esq W Putnam Prof F has made several donations of reptiles and batrachians From Prof Alexander Agassiz a number of young fishes have been received from Mr S F Denton, several New Guinea lizards from N Vickary, Esq., several reptiles from Dr Fewkes, some larval batrachia and from ; ; ; ; Miss Isabel Batchelder, a species of Priouotus Shipments The fishes of the Blake Expeditions returned by Dr Steindachner were forwarded to Prof Goode The fishes of the United States Exploring Expedition were sent to the Smithsonian Institution There were also sent out as exchanges some seventy-five species, a hundred and thirty- — four specimens, of fishes, to Prof Jordan ; nine specimens of and batrachians, to Mr H Garman specimens of Siren, Amphiuma, and Amblystoma, to Prof Moseley and a number of cans and jars, to Mr M A Lawson, of Ootocamund A lot of live reptiles were consigned to the Zoological Society of London The publications of the year from these departments inreptiles ; ; cludes : — "A List of the Species of Reptiles and Batrachians occurring North of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, with References." " An Extraordinary Shark, Chlamydoselachiisy " A Species of Heftahranchias supposed to be New." Published in the Bulletin of the Essex Institute " The Reptiles of Bermuda." In Bull 25, U S Nat Mus Besides the foregoing, there have been published articles on Peculiar Selachian," and " The oldest living Type of Verte- "A brata," in "Science," book notices and various other articles, reviews, and " North American Reptiles and The volume on Batrachians," though printed last year, has only recently been received and sent out by the Museum 24 REPORT ON THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT By Dr The H A IIagen North American Coleoptera, from the late bequeathed to The collection is the most prominent addition the Museurh, two hundred and eight boxes, and fills three cabinets, with thirty-three larger boxes besides, seven of them not yet delivcollection of Dr John L Le Conte, of Philadelphia, Pa., — The ered — collection represents the well-used tool of a hard and incessant worker The collection is indeed very large and important, and has been carefully compared with the Doctor's works by the AssistOf the t3'pe8 thirteen ant through the whole month of August are wanting two Mexican species given by the Doctor to the Philadelphia Entomological Society two were lost on the journey to Europe eight, recognized later as synonyms, are : ; ; probably present, but without label ; one, Myodites Zeschi, is not yet found With this collection are now returned to the INIuseum the types of Melsheimer, Ziegler, and Say, selected by Dr J L Le Conte from the collections of Melsheimer and Ziegler when they were purchased for the Museum In the printed catalogue, every species and the number of specimens have been checked off by the Assistant as a provisional catalogue The full number cannot be given before the whole A collection is delivered two hundred bought from was new to the Museum, Dr Staudinger, Dresden, Saxony A new arrangement of the biological collection of the Lepidoptera was made necessary by this addition This part fills now seven cabinets, with one hundred and twenty-six boxes The biological collection of Lepicollection of the earl}' stages of Lepidoptera, and twenty doptera is species, all certainly the richest of this kind in existence 25 A new arrangement tera, to had A of the biological collection of the Coleop- introduce the collection presented by Professor Schaupp, to be postponed for want of cabinets large collection of Neuroptera from made by Mr Samana Bay, Haiti, was bought and presented to the Museum A large lot of Odonata, from the North Guinea Archipelago, Central Asia, South Africa, Peru, and Brazil, was bought and presented to the Museum Numerous additions by private students, or by exchange, have, as usual, enlarged the collection By exchange were added Lepidoptera, from Arizona and Himalaya, by Mr B Neumoegen, New York, and Neuroptera, by Mr Aaron, Philadelphia The collection has been largely used both here and abroad The Myriapodes are still in Dr Meinert's hands, half of them the Chilopoda ready for publication North American Arachnids are still in the hands of Count Keyserling The second volume of his Spinnen Amerika, Theridiidse, Nurnberg, 1884, is just published, a handsome quarto volume of 221 pages and 10 colored plates Of the Scorpions a dozen Unica are still in Frazer, — — Mr Simon's hands, in Paris, for publication The Ephemerina have been returned by Mr Eaton from England Two parts of his splendid monograph are published with the third concluding part, the monograph will fill a whole ; volume of the Transactions of the Linnsean Society of London On nearly every page the material supplied by the Cambridge collection The in the is mentioned North American Tineinse have been hands of Prof H Frey, in Ziirich, Switzerland They larger part of the were safely returned with the notes of Prof Frey A prepared publication had to be postponed by his illness Mr P R Uhler has studied and determined the Hemiptera collected in 1882 in Washington Territory Mr J B Smith, of Brooklyn, New York, has studied and published the Satyridee collected in 1882 in Washington Territory (in the Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society) Mr L Brunner has studied the Orthoptera collected in 1882 in Washington Territory The Assistant has published a number of smaller papers among them, the remarkable discovery that the Hessian fly was known by this name, and by its ravages, in 1768, long 26 before the Revolution ; and a paper on the law against grass- hoppers in the sixteenth century Both papers are published Farther, the discovery of two entomological in " Science." papers by Th Say, not included in Le Conte's edition, in Psyche the types of Gelechia in the collection of the Museum, in Papilio and several biological notes in the Canadian ; ; Entomologist The principal scientific work was done for the monograph of By numerous additions, and the early stages of the Odonata generous help here and abroad, the material is now so enlarged that the first part (which is ready for publication), the Goniphina, is many times richer than tiie monograph published ten years ago The Lamellicornia arranged, and fill of the general collection three cabinets have been re- 27 REPORT ON THE CRUSTACEA Bv Waltee Faxox The principal additions to this collection during the past year have come through a system of exchanges carried on in connection with a revision of the Astacidse, prepared by the Assistant Almost every described species of Astacid of the Northern hemisphere is now represented in the Museum collection A collection of Mediterranean Sea Crustacea has been purchased from the Zoological Station at Naples 28 REPORT OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL AND PALiEONTOLOGICAL DEPARTMENTS By Charles The chief additions made E in the Hamlin department of Palaeontology, since the date of the last annual Report, are Fossil Vertebrates by Messrs S Garman, H C Clifford, G R Allaman and L Hollywood, from the Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Tertiary Of these strata of Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota, and Wyoming collections provisional disposition has been made, until cases shall be provided for their distribution and arrangement Since they will probably be more fully noticed in the future reports upon Mammals, Reptiles, and Fishes, no further statement is collected here required To Lower Carboniferous of Thomas have this year been made through the series of Fishes from the Scotland, last year purchased of the collector, Mr Stock of Edinburgh, additions the same collector The systematic collection of Fossil Plants, including the determined in former years by ]\Ir Lesquereux, as well as the European series, has been put in order and transferred for storage to cases in the Synoptic Room, where American series they have been arranged in the order of the several geological formations which they represent The collections of Invertebrate Fossils, heretofore stored in the unfinished eastern attic, have been floor, removed to the first and the Tertiary, Mesozoic, and part of the Paheozoic colhave been arranged in systematic order in permanent lections cases recently constructed for them The great collection of Fossil In vertebra ta, made by, and in 1880 purchased of, Mr C B Dyer of Cincinnati (since deceased), which has hitherto remained in the packages, has been unpacked, and, after preliminary arrangement, placed in cases 29 now first made ready for it The greater part of tliis exceed- ingly rich collection consists of specimens from the Cincinnati Limestone, the Niagara strata of Waldron, Ind., and the Subcarboniferous of Crawfordsville, Ind Two boxes of Paradoxides, Conocephalites, Beyrichia, Leperhave been forwarded for study to Dr C D Walcott of the National Museum at Washington ditia, etc., My time having been chiefly occupied with the Palaeontologi- cal collections, comparatively little work has been done in the Conchological department For the large and fine collection of recent marine shells, from Tasmania, and of Palaeozoic and Tertiary Mollusca, from Tasmania and Southern Australia, received at the close of the last academic year from Lieut C E Beddome, of Hobart, there have been sent in return a full series of recent Lamellibran- chiate shells A few recent shells have been delivered to Prof Alfred C Haddon, of the Royal College of Science, Dublin, as the beginning of an exchangee In connection with the work of the year has been published " Results of an Examination of Syrian Molluscan Fossils, chiefly from the Range of Mount Lebanon By Charles E Hamlin." 4to, pp 68, Plates Mem Mus Comp Zool., Vol X No 30 REPORT ON THE RADIATES By Since the last Waltkk Fewkes J Annual Report, the ates has been brought together in a now taken up by them and collection of alcoholic Radi- room in the cellar, which is the alcoliolic collection of Sponges, Representative genera of Corals and Sponges have been picked out from the general collection of dried material for future exhiThese now await mounting, after bition in the Faunal Rooms which they can easily be put on exhibition in places already prepared for them A collection of Coral Sands and Rocks illustrating the forma- West Indian and Floridan Brussels Museum tion of the to the Several trays filled coral islands has been sent with specimens of dried Ophiurans and many from the deep seas, have additional dried Sea Urchins, been placed with the other dried Echinoderms A collection of Echinoderm parasites, Myzostomidae, colle^ed by the Blake and Hassler Expeditions, and described by Dr L V Graff in Vol XI No 7, of the Bulletin of the Museum, have been returned One or two identified specimens of new Echinoderms, collected by the United States Fish Commission, have been added to the general collection 31 REPORT ON THE LIBRARY By Miss F M Slack During the year ending September 1, 1884, the Library has been increased by 565 volumes, 1234 parts, and 775 pamphlets VOLUMES PARTS PAMPHLETS 128 15 124 Exchange 117 442 82 Purchase A Agassiz 154 601 157 47 58 408 Gift Museum Publications Binding Parts and Pamphlets 229 565 The whole number of pamphlets) is of volumes 16,657 now in the 1234 775 Library (exclusive ?.o [A.] PUBLICATIONS MUSEUM 01" COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR Of the Bulletin Vol VII., completing the volume No 11 : — The Azoic System and M E Wadsworth 1883-84 xvi its By J D Whitnet and August, 1884 $2.50 Subdivisions and 335 pp Vol XI No No Reports on the Results of Dredging by the U S C S Steamer XXV Supplementary Report on the "Blake" Cephalo"Blake." PODS By A E Verrill 12 pp Plates October, 1883 40 c Descriptions of Two Species of Octopus, from California pp — Plates No October, 1883 40 Reports on the Results of " c Dredging by the U S C S Steamer — XXVI Verzeichniss der von den United States Coast Survey Steamers " Hassler " and " Blake," von 1867 zu 1879, gesam- Blake." nielten Myzostomiden 10 1883 Von Dr L v Graff November, pp c A Supplement to the Fifth Volume of the Terrestrial Air-BreathING MoLLUSKS of the United States and adjacent Territories By W G BiNNEY 22 pp Plates December, 1883 60 c XXII On No Studies from the Newport Marine Zoiilogical Laboratory the Development of certain Worm Larvje By J W Fewkes 42 pp Plates December, 1883 SI 25 No 10 Bibliography to accompany " Selections from Embryological Monographs, compiled by A Agassiz, W Faxon, and E L Mark." No — — III (Vol XI AcALEPHS to be By J W Fewkes Vol VIII., completing the volume: July, 1884 30 c continued.) Of the Memoirs No 30 pp — North American Reptiles By Kentucky Geological Survey, N Plates Shaler S Garman, in Connection with the Shaler, Director 200 pp [Issued by the Museum, July, 1884.] Apply to Prof N S S 83 Vol X No No On the Range of April, 1884 (Vol X Fossil Dog, by J A Allen (In press.) Syrian Molluscan Fossils, chiefly from Mount Lebanon By C E Hamlin 68 pp Plates a Species of Results of an Examination of $2.50 to be continued.) Vol XI No LiTHOLOGiCAL STUDIES, by M E Wadsworth ,(In press.) The Water Birds of North America Vol I., xi and 537 pp Vol II., 552 pp With numerous Wood-cuts in the Text By S F Baird, T M Brewer, and R Ridgwat Issued in Continuation of the Publications of the Geological Survey of California, J D Whitney, State Geologist April and August, 1884 For sale by Little, Brown, & Co., Vols XII., XIII Boston, Mass Also preparing : — North American Marine Invertebrates, from Drawings by Burk- Illustrations of hardt, Sonrel, and A Agassiz, prepared under the Direction of L Agassiz Selections from Embryological Monographs, compiled by A Agassiz, Papers by Prof E Ehlers on the Annelids of the Straits of Florida, dredged by Messrs Pourtales and Agassiz in Connection with the Geological Survey of Kentucky, by Prof N S Shaler, on the Brachiopoda of the Ohio Valley by A Hyatt, on Cephalopods by E L Mark, on the Development of Araclinactis by M E Wadsworth; by Walter Faxon, on Astacids; and by A Agassiz and C Whitman, on the Embryology of Bony Fishes Reports on the Dredging Operations in Charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U S Coast Survey Steamer " Blake," for 1877, 1878, 1879, and 1880 H B Brady (Foraminifera), P H Carpenter (Crinoidea), W H Dall (Mollusks of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea), G B Goode and T H Bean (East Coast Fishes and Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean W Faxon, and E L Mark ; ; ; Sea), C E Hamlin (East Coast Mollusks), A A Hubrecht (Nemerteans), A Milne-Edwards (Crustacea), J Murray (Sea Bottoms), E Perrier (Starfishes), A E Verrill (Alcyonaria), and H The'el (Holothuroidea) 34 [B.] INVESTED FUNDS OF THE MUSEUM I>f THE HANDS OF THE TREASURER OF HARVARD COLLEGE, SePT Sturgis-Hooper Fund 1, 1884 $100,000.00 Gray Memorial Fund Agassiz Memorial Fund Teachers' and Pupils' Fund Permanent Fund Humboldt Fund 50,000.00 297,933.10 7,594.01 117,469.34 7,740.66 §580,737.11 The payments on account of the College on vouchers approved by Museum are the Curator made by the Bursar of Harvard The accounts are annually exThe only funds the income of amined by a committee of the Museum Faculty which is restricted, the Gray and the Humboldt Funds, are annually charged an analysis of the accounts with vouchers to the payment of which the income in is applicable The income of the Gray Fund can be applied to the purchase and maintenance of collections, but not for salaries The income of the Humboldt Fund can be applied students of Natural History for the benefit of one or more ... brownish red * The Zor.logy of the Voyage of 11 : S Cballentror, Vol on the PenuatuUda, by Professor Albert V Kolliker, 1880 I Part 11. , Report MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY Height, 600 to 1.5... near the caUcles, and especially neai the ends of the branches, the spicula are much MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 17 like those of the lower part of the calicles, but elsewhere they are smaller... and basal portion of the branches covered with MUSEUM OF COMPAEATIVE ZOOLOGY 27 small, prominent, rounded, soft verrucse, having the outer surface a layer of special nettling of the lower calicles